Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781455532704)

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

In Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, Frank Bruni explains why this mindset is wrong, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes.

Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are students' efforts in and out of the classroom, not the name on their diploma.

Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that--and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.

Author: Frank Bruni
ISBN-10: 1455532703
ISBN-13: 9781455532704
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015
Library Journal 02/01/2015 pg. 92
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2015
Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 03/29/2015 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 04/05/2015 pg. 26

About the Author
Frank Bruni is the author of three bestselling books and an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Prior, he worked as the newspaper's chief restaurant critic, Rome bureau chief and White House correspondent.